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Message: [QUOTE="Lheticus, post: 2317269, member: 111392"] You know what? Honestly, I'm opposed to online casino games too. Without the human equation, without other players in opposition to you in the game, any game of chance on a computer becomes [I]way[/I] too easy to rig ridiculously in favor of the house. Brick and mortar blackjack, craps, and roulette games are regulated and scrutinized to the point of utter ridiculousness--but that scrutiny is absolutely necessary to ensure those games maintain semblance of fairness. If you put that stuff in a real money computer program, regulation becomes a lot more trouble than it's worth--because unlike online poker, online casino games benefit greatly from being crooked. I feel it would be far easier to scrutinize [I]players[/I] for unfair play rather than gambling institutions--and poker institutions would even aid this as they don't benefit from unfair play in poker, due to customers being driven away! A casino game entity on the other hand would benefit [I]vastly[/I] from unfair play, and would be a lot more effective than most individuals at keeping the shadiness of the game a secret from regulatory boards--not to mention the premise that setting up an entity to regulate online casino games would be even more costly than online poker regulation because as aforementioned, in online poker, the controlling corporate entities [I]want[/I] the game to be fair, which eases the burden from the government somewhat. In summary, if online poker starts leading to a push for online casino gambling, and Adelson focuses his energies on that specific target to the exclusion of online poker opposition at that point, I will honestly be on his side there. (Coincidentally, of course.) When dealing with text-only interaction, my batteries are hardly ever [I]charged[/I] enough. They almost were this time, but the sentence, "Seriously are casino profits an industry worth protecting anyway?" successfully threw me off. It didn't seem to contextually jive with a sarcastic response to what I assumed was Adelson's "study" being epically shot down when the context was added. [/QUOTE]

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